Others are more optimistic, arguing that the entire system will go down and that an external opposition figure, perhaps the former Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi, will help the country transition ...

In Washington, China is generally defined as the primary systemic challenger to U.S. global leadership, technological primacy, economic dominance, and democratic norms. In Beijing, the United States ...

Amid a sea of disruptions—territorial threats against Denmark, missed alliance meetings by senior U.S. diplomats, and planned personnel reductions at NATO installations—the Trump administration’s ...

If the annexationists’ momentum is not checked very soon, their cumulative acts will increase the odds of renewed unrest, necessitate sustained Israel Defense Forces (IDF) mobil ...

The war in Sudan is a battle for land and resources. Over nearly three years of conflict, the Sudanese Armed Forces—the country’s regular army—and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have traded ...

MAX BERGMANN is Director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and the Stuart Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Conventional wisdom has long held that China would never become a technological powerhouse. From the late 1970s to the early twenty-first century, despite the country’s rapid economic growth, its ...

When China’s property market collapsed in 2021, its leaders scrambled to find a new driver of economic growth to replace housing construction. More investment in infrastructure, which had powered much ...

The two countries employ 70 percent of the world’s top machine learning researchers, command 90 percent of global computing power, and attract the vast majority of AI investment—more than twice the ...

LIANA FIX is Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of the forthcoming book Germany Rearmed: The Return of War and the End of Illusions.

He not only toppled a dictatorship that had ruled Syria for half a century but also, upon assuming leadership of the country, convinced Western capitals to lift or suspend most of the sanctions ...